Another game will soon support SM3.0

[Cryect]

Oh and they also use FP16 even though that is totally illegal for SM3.0

Show me. The "illegal" part, I mean.

Just check the Inducement Act and it shouldn't be too hard to find

Oh wait thats not passed yet, but they are trying to make it illegal to induce game developers to use lower quality I hear

 

[jvd]

OK..... I've seen Hellbinder go on this 'rant' numerous times now, and I would like to get to the bottom of this.
Is fp16 'not part of' sm3.0?

No, thats bullshit.

dave pp is fine as long as the program asks for it. If the driver deciedes on its own to use fp 16 that is not legal.

 

[Temporary Name]

OK..... I've seen Hellbinder go on this 'rant' numerous times now, and I would like to get to the bottom of this.
Is fp16 'not part of' sm3.0?

No, thats bullshit.

Wait... you mean Hellbender isn't a reliable source of information?

/me dies of shock and surprise

 

[Xmas]

dave pp is fine as long as the program asks for it. If the driver deciedes on its own to use fp 16 that is not legal.

In some cases it is legal.

And the way Hellbinder said it, it's bullshit.

 

[Farid]

Here's the first pics of the add-on. :|

 

[Xmas]

Looks quite good, IMO. But the better graphics get, the more outstanding the lack of proper shadowing becomes.
I don't think you can tell whether there were some complex shaders used. Usually, a good shader effect is a very subtle one.

 

[Farid]

a good shader effect is a very subtle one.

I agree but in this case, we can call them excellent shaders since they're almost invisible!
leaving "classical" vertex sharder apart, today's subtle pixel shaders are used for shadowing (soft, fade, etc), various lighting effect...
Yes it's great but it's hardly "advertisable" like they did:

We have hired a new programmer whose only task is to add new cool FX to the game. Definitely expect Pixel Shader 3.0 support

Maybe there will be new "magic" in the game, that is going to use thoses new FX.